Text messaging
hideText messaging, or texting is a colloquial term referring to the exchange of brief written messages between mobile phones, over cellular networks. While the term most often refers to messages sent using the Short Message Service (SMS), it has been extended to include messages containing image, video, and sound content, such as MMS messages. Individual messages are referred to as "text messages" or "texts".
The most common application of the service is person-to-person messaging, but text messages are also used to interact with automated systems, such as ordering products and services for mobile phones, or participating in contests. Advertisers and service providers use texts to notify mobile phone users about promotions, payment due dates, and other notifications that were previously sent by post or left as voicemail. There are internet services available that allow users to send text messages free of direct charge to the sender.
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Swipe Your Credit Card on a Cell Phone
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With a small card reader that attaches to a cell phone, a new company is making it easier for small businesses and even individuals to accept credit card payments. The San Francisco start-up, ...
Researchers create cell phones for sign language
Dec 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers and colleagues have created cell phones that allow deaf people to communicate in sign language, the same way hearing people use phones to talk.
Text-a-Tip programs allow tipsters to help police
Nov 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A mother in Boston tells police her 8-year-old boy was shot to death in their apartment by gunmen in hooded sweat shirts during a home invasion.
S.Korea halves ceiling on text messages to fight spam
Nov 25, 2009 |
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South Korean authorities on Wednesday halved the daily limit on text messages sent out by mobile phones as part of a campaign against spam, officials said.
Friends go online at Foursquare to meet offline
Nov 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Laura Fitton's ascent has been staggering: In less than a year, she's become mayor of nine different places in several different states, all without giving any speeches or kissing any babies.
Review: New BlackBerry Storm improves on original
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Nov 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The first touch-screen BlackBerry phone, the Storm, got a few things right, but generally it was a chore to use.
Mobile multimedia revenues tipped to dethrone text
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Multimedia services will surpass text messaging this year as the main source of mobile operators' non-voice revenue in the Asia-Pacific region, industry analyst IDC said Monday.
